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  • #1
    Behcet Kaya
    “Rudy? You can’t take the stairs. We’re having dinner on the 71st floor.”
    “It’s okay, Boss. I can walk up.”
    Behcet Kaya, Murder in Buckhead

  • #2
    Mark   Ellis
    “Cary Grant or was it Errol Flynn – said – ‘A good martini is like a woman’s breast: one is too few and three are too many’.”
    Mark Ellis, Princes Gate

  • #3
    “Think of your pain as nothing else but a requirement to become the best version of yourself.”
    Arelis Calkins, Rising Above Adversity: Healing and Nurturing your Inner Child

  • #4
    Lotchie Burton
    “It wasn’t easy to walk away from one life, disappear, then start another.”
    Lotchie Burton, Dante's Revenge

  • #5
    JoDee Neathery
    “It’s Gabe. He might look at an iceberg floating on the sea and wonder what was under it where I would only be interested in how cold the water must be to keep it solid. He’s pointing at the moon and I’m looking at his finger.”
    JoDee Neathery, A Kind of Hush

  • #6
    Theasa Tuohy
    “The room was cavernous, divided into varied sections by high Moorish arches of a rusty peach, the ceiling of painted patterns set between strips of light blue wood. Bright colors everywhere, high curved windows bordered in violet, smaller windows inset with yellow and green stones and framed in aqua, banquettes upholstered in red and gold.
     ”
    Theasa Tuohy, Mademoiselle le Sleuth

  • #7
    Hanna  Hasl-Kelchner
    “You can’t have trust without fairness”
    Hanna Hasl-Kelchner, Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction

  • #8
    Joseph A. Anderson
    “There were times, while Atom slept and she was awake soothing her crying daughter, that a question itched from somewhere deep within. This "unsolved mystery" that Atom spoke of: It was all in the past, her mind insisted, as that's what her husband had promised. But she couldn't let it go, so eventually she had to ask. "Why did these ghost people emerge and then just vanish in your world?”
    Joseph A. Anderson, Return to Planet Earth

  • #9
    “She thought of Perryville prison, of the noise, the heat, the eyes that never looked away.”
    D.L. Maddox, Stolen

  • #10
    Maria  Jane
    “I love your farm, you know I do, but this is your passion. I’m figuring out what mine is. I’m good at marketing. My supervisor says I have a good eye and creative ideas.”
    Maria Jane, Perfect

  • #11
    Pat Conroy
    “Before I met the Jesuits, I’d never encountered another group who thought that intellect and arrogance were treasures beyond price and necessities in waging wars against blasphemers, heretics.”
    Pat Conroy, My Losing Season

  • #12
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Not hear it? --yes, I hear it, and have heard it. Long --long --long --many minutes, many hours, many days, have I heard it --yet I dared not --oh, pity me, miserable wretch that I am! --I dared not --I dared not speak! We have put her living in the tomb!”
    Edgar Alan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

  • #13
    Dalton Trumbo
    “The child tortures the fly because he has the power to do so, and had not yet learned how mercifully to kill.”
    Dalton Trumbo, Night of the Aurochs

  • #14
    Mary Ann Shaffer
    “Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done, to have advanced true friends?”
    Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

  • #15
    Annie Proulx
    “In america the intense desire to accumulate wealth and power was democratized...The virtue of 'hard work' was often invoked to sugarcoat aggressive, unscrupulous dealings with more naive people.”
    Annie Proulx, Bird Cloud



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